Friday, July 25, 2014

Yesterday I baked my first coffee cake. It was horrible. We tossed it in the bin, that's how bad it was.

That got me thinking about a coffee cake that I had a long time ago. It was a semi-sweet or a bitter-sweet coffee cake, I can't recall for sure.

It was a big round cake, with a swirled layer of chocolate in the center, topped with crumbly goodness. Then topped again with a bittersweet chocolate ganache that always managed to stay the right texture, no matter how long the cake lasted.

Best coffee cake, in the history of ever.

Which brings me to Friday's Question: Do you eat coffee cake? And if so, what's the best one you ever had?

Under DEZZ ON TOUR button at my place you will find few of the guest posts that I did about my recipes, and I think one of them has my famous cappuccino cake :) What was exactly wrong with yours? If you put instant coffee or cappuccino powder in your batter it should be good. A tablespoon should do it

It was a vegan coffee cake. The recipe belongs to someone else. There were several technical issues with the formula. In the end, the cake lacked flavour but worse, felt raw in the mouth, even though it was fully baked.

Quite unpleasant, but a good learning experience.

PS: Mary Berry has a Cappuccino cake too. I put it on my Must Bake List. I bet yours was killer good as well.

there are some sponges that are creamy and rawish, that is the way they are supposed to be :) Mine are designed to be almost creamy, but still baked. I don't like dry sponge cakes. And since I don't use eggs, but yoghurt, buttermilk or lekvart, the sponge is always very creamy like in your fudge cakes.

I don't eat it that often, 'cause well it's still cake. :) The best one I ever had was a cinnamon one and it had sour cream in it. I had it, I think, just after I graduated HS. Got the recipe, lost the recipe. And I though I've come close to replicating it, it's missing something.

Oh no, something is missing. That's a bummer. But I know what you mean. You know, this is dumb, but I never though of coffee cake as real cake before. I mean it is, but I for some silly reason, I never thought of it as such.

so sorry you were disappointed. i love coffee cake. brings back great childhood memories of breakfast before going off to school. but the only one i know of is by saralee. sorry. better luck next time. have a super duper weekend ivy. cheers!!